English Literature- Literary time periods 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureLove through the agesA2/A-levelAQA Created by: RonanhollierCreated on: 31-05-17 11:06 What are the styles of the medieval period? moral tales, frame stories, mystery and miracle plays 1 of 23 What are the contents of medieval period? Chivalry code, religious devotion and plays that instruct morals 2 of 23 Who are key authors from this period? Geoffrey Chaucer 3 of 23 What are key styles of the renaissance/metaphysical period? Sonnet, drama was written in verse, CONCEIT (metaphysical)- elaborate and unexpected metaphors 4 of 23 What is the content of renaissance/ metaphysical poetry? development of human potential, unrequited love, timeless love 5 of 23 What is the effect of this content? Not everyone embraced the metaphysical poets and their abstract conceit 6 of 23 Who are key authors from Renaissance/ metaphysical period? Shakespeare, Wyatt, Donne, Marvell 7 of 23 What are the key styles of the neoclassical period? Satire, poetry, essays, letters and biographies 8 of 23 What is the key content of the neoclassical period? Emphasis on reason and logic, stresses harmony 9 of 23 Who are key literature authors? John Milton 10 of 23 What are the key styles of the Romantic period? Natural imagery and lyrical ballads in poems 11 of 23 What is the key content? Introduction of Gothic elements and horror- in nature we can find comfort 12 of 23 What are the effects of this? Evil attributed to society ant not to human nature 13 of 23 Who are key authors/ poets from the Romantic period? Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, William Blake and John Keats 14 of 23 What are key styles of the Victorian period? Detective novels, serialized novels, elegies and BUILDUNGRANSOMAN (a novel deciding with one person's formative years) 15 of 23 What are the effects of this? Bigamous marriages, aristocratic villains, romantic triangles, country vs city life 16 of 23 Who are key authors? Hardy, Charles Dickens, George Elliott, Oscar wilde and Charlotte Bronte 17 of 23 What are key styles in modernism? Free verse, speeches, memoirs 18 of 23 What are the effects of this? Stream of consciousness 19 of 23 Who are key authors? James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S.Elliot, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad 20 of 23 What are key styles of post-modernist period? mixing of fantasy with non-fiction, dystopian novels, concern with individual isolation, magical realism 21 of 23 What are the effects? Erodes distinction between classes of people, values are NOT permanent 22 of 23 Who are key authors? Adrunthai Roy, Owen Sheers, Margaret Atwood 23 of 23
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